Blade dispensing and receiving package



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t BLADE DISPENSING AND RECEIVING PACKAGE Filed Oct. 8, 1949 ii/1a iii Patented Nov. 4, 1952 YBLADEIDISPEN SING AND RECEIVING "PACKAGE Joseph:Muros,Newtonville, Mass., assignor to The Gillette iflompanma corporation of Delaware Application October 8, 1949, Serial No..120,343

AzClaims. (011206-16) This invention comprises a new I and improved dispensing and receiving-package for safety'razor blades.

The principal objects of the invention are to provide a flat dispensingpackage of convenient size for the user or traveler that-may beconstructed and filled at low cost, which will safeguard theblades against damage-to'their-cutting edges in'transportation'and storage and in which is incorporated a compartment for thesafedisposal of used blades.

Going more into detail, the package of my invention includesin-its structure a rectangular carrier strip'in whichaseries of vblades isanchored by having one end of ea'chxpassedthrough the strip, and a coverstripmarginally secured to the carrier strip thereby forming an intermediate blade-receiving compartment with a'carrier strip and having an inletslot opening into the said compartment. The cover strip is preferably extended to cover bothsides of the carrier strip andthe blades located thereon thereby serving two functions, 1. e. forming one wall of the used blade compartment and forming also the cover of the package as a whole and protecting the unused blades therein. The carrier strip also serves two functions, 1. c. it constitutes the other wall of the used blade compartment and at the same time locates and holds the unused blades in a convenient staggered relation so that a single blade may be easily grasped and removed by the user as required. The package of my invention is so advantageous from a standpoint of economy that it may be provided at no more than the cost of individual blade packaging and so may be discarded by the user when it has served its purpose.

It is believed that a continuous cover strip has not heretofore been used in this combination, that is to say, extended above both sides of an intermediate blade-carrying member, thus having the two distinct functions above described.

These and other features of the invention will be best understood and appreciated from the following description of a preferred embodiment thereof, selected for purposes of illustration and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a view in perspective of the package on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the open package;

Fig. 5 is a corresponding view in side elevation;

Fig. 6 is a plan view of an empty package show- 2 ing a portion of the carrier strip'broken away; and

Fig. 7-is a view similarto Fig. 2on a somewhat smaller scale showing part of the cover broken away and aused blade partially inserted-in the used blade compartment.

The package'may be formed of cardboard or other flexible sheet material. In its illustrated embodiment it comprises a body strip having a rectangular panel l0,'folded to provide a short tongue II at one end and having a cover=panel l2 at the other. To the panel 10 is secured an intermediate blade-carrying strip l3 having at one end aseries of 'transverseslits l4 and being secured permanently in place by a staple H: which passes through the tongue IL-the carrier strip and the'panel 'ID and is clenched with its ends onthe latter.

The transverse slits M in the carrier arearranged in uniformly stepped relation and in each slit is removably secured one-end of a blade 16. The blade herein shown is of well-known com mercial type being sharpened on both edges and provided with a longitudinal median slot.

It is shouldered at each corner and provided with elongated unsharpened end portions and it is these end portions which pass through the slits M in the carrier strip [3. The end shoulders of the blades abut against the surface of the carrier strip l3 as shown in Fig. 4 while the unsharpened end portions pass through the carrier strip as shown in Fig. 7.

The panel In is provided with a transverse blade-receiving slot l1 near the end of the panel [0 to which the cover panel I2 is attached or at the end which is remote from the inserted blade ends. In addition to attachement by the staple l5 and the panel In and the carrier strip are marginally secured together by an adhesive l8. Thus the unsecured areas of these two strips within the line of adhesive attachment constitute the opposite walls of a used blade compartment into which used blades may be inserted endwise through the slot I1.

It will be apparent that the panel I0, tongue I l and cover panel l2 may be easily and cheaply formed by suitably bending a single rectangular strip of cardboard or the like. The carrier strip I3 may likewise be easily slitted and provided with a change of sharp blades. The panel ID and the carrier strip are then united by adhesive and by the staple l5 as already explained and the package completed by tucking the cover panel 12 under the tongue II. The complete package in this condition is shown in Fig. 1. When the cover panel I2 is opened the blades, of which there are 5 in the illustrated package, fan out to some extent by reason of the resiliency of the carrier strip and extend in the position shown in Fig. 5 in which the uppermost blade in the series may always be conveniently grasped by the user and removed from the package. When the blade has served its purpose, the user may safely dispose of it by inserting it through the slot l1 into the used blade compartment and in this operatin it will be noted that the advancing end of the used blade will move smoothly over the inserted ends of the sharp blades in the same general direction in which they extend and therefore without any obstructions from these blades or danger of catching thereon.

Having thus disclosed my invention and described in detail an illustrative embodiment thereof, I claim as new and desire to receive by Letters Patent:

1. A blade dispensing package having a compartment for used blades, comprising an elongated carrier of sheet material, a plurality of thin flexible blades removably attached to the carrier adjacent to the blade ends, and a cover of continuous strip material enclosing the blades on one side of said carrier and being extended about the back of the carrier, adhesively attached to the marginal edges of said carrier back about an area providing therewith a used blade compartment and having a transverse slot adjacent to one end of said area.

2 A dispensing and receiving package for safety razor blades comprising an elongated carrier card having a series of transverse slits therein, a plurality of thin flexible blades each projecting obliquely at one end through a slit of the card, and a flexible strip of sheet material covering the inserted blade ends, marginally secured to and cooperating with the card to provide a bladereceiving compartment and provided with a transverse blade-receiving slot adjacent to that end from which an inserted used blade will pass freely over the said blade ends.

3. A dispensing and receiving magazine for safety razor blades comprising a rectangular car'- rier strip provided adjacent to one end with a plurality of transverse slits, a thin flexible unused razor blade frictionally held at one end in each of said slits and projecting at an acute angle through the carrier strip, and a second strip underlying the carrier strip and marginally secured thereto thus providing an enclosed used blade compartment, said second strip being provided with a transverse slot remote from the slotted end of the carrier strip for the introduction of used blades.

4. A dispensing and receiving magazine for razor blades, comprising a rectangular carrier strip havin a series of parallel transverse slits, a corresponding series of unused blades each of which passes at one end through a slit of the carrier strip with its end projecting through the strip at an inclination and directed toward one end of the strip, and a cover strip marginally secured to the back of the carrier strip and 00- operating therewith to form a blade-receiving compartment therebetween, the cover strip having a blade inlet slot opening into said compartment near that end of the strip away from which the projecting blade ends are directed, whereby an inserted used blade will pass smoothly over the projecting ends of the unused blades in the magazine.

JOSEPH MUROS.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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